Anderson County records first known quadruple homicide

EASLEY - The deaths of four people on Pine Lake Drive near Easley gave Anderson County an infamous record on Saturday.

Anderson County Sheriff David Crenshaw, who worked with the Sheriff's Office in the '70s and '80s and has been in office for nearly four years, said he doesn't remember a homicide of this magnitude ever occurring here.

"This highly unusual," Sheriff Crenshaw said. "This is the first one, a case like this, that I can remember."

The last big case involving multiple deaths in the county was the Troy Burkhart case. He was convicted of killing three people during a shooting spree in the cab of a pickup in November 1997.

He was sentenced in July 2007 to three life sentences for the deaths of Shane and Stacy Walters, 27 and 22, respectively, and Sonya Cann, 21. Evidence showed that all three had been shot in the head at close range.

Sheriff Crenshaw and Anderson County Coroner Greg Shore said they could recall a double homicide that occurred in the late '70s or early '80s behind Saylors One Stop in Anderson. In that case, a man shot two others behind the convenience store.

Shore said he has been with the coroner's office since 1989, and he, too, can't remember a quadruple homicide in Anderson County. And he only remembers one triple homicide — the Burkhart case.